3 "Violins" In My Parts List

• Jan 30, 2012 - 16:58

Hi;
Why are there 3 violins in my parts list? How do I get rid of (or, for that matter, activate) the pizzicato and/or tremolo violins? Why do I have a "mute" C trumpet with my regular C trumpet? What purpose does that serve? How do I get rid of it?
TIA,
Beno

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• Jan 30, 2012 - 18:51

That is truly awesome! However, my pieces (thus far) don't make use of pizzicato, tremolo or muted instruments. It would be convenient for me to simply eliminate those choices from my parts lists so that I don't have to continually scroll down to get to the instruments I actually use. Is that an option? If so, how?
TIA,
Beno

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• Jan 30, 2012 - 21:29

Wait a minute - what parts list do you mean? The only place I can think of where you should normally be seeing separate listings for pizz versus acro versus tremolo is in the Mixer window, not in the Parts window. So is it the Mixer window you are referring to?

There are separate controls for these because they represent separate patches in most soundfonts, and thus you might perhaos need to adjust their levels separately (quite likely in most soundfonts, as they are seldom balanced appropriately). If you know will not be using those sounds, then you could create a customized version of instruments.xml, and use Edit->Preferences to tell MuseScore to use your customized version instead of the regular ome. The customized versipn would just be a copy of the regular version but with the lines having to do with pizzicato and tremolo removed. But then you'd have to switch back to the regular version of that if you ever wanted to actually wire a pizziacto or tremolo passage. So I can't imagine it would be worth the trouble.

What I think could be useful as a future enhancement to MuseScore would be if by default, the mixer showed the three three mixer channels for violin as collapsed into one,, with one set of controls automatically applying to all three. A "+" button could be available expand the channel on command to the three subchannels if you do meed to set the levels of the individual patches spearately.

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• Jan 31, 2012 - 00:02

Very savvy reply :) I presume it's the mixer window, yes...comes up when I press "m". It calls itself the "Part List", however. Yeah, editing an xml file would be easy enough, obviously. Perhaps I will. Maybe I'll just leave it for the moment. Your idea of clicking to bring up all 3 is excellent. BTW, what language is MS written in? Maybe I could tweak it myself ;)
TIA,
Beno

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• Jan 31, 2012 - 02:46

It's probably a bug that the window says Parts List. But anyhow, MuseScore is in C++. I don't know that much about the source, but I do have to imagine that the code to handle the mixer window is probably pretty well isolated from the rest of it, so it might make a good first project. That's just a guess, though, and I don't know that this is a particularly good time in the development cycle to be adding new features.

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